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' E. R. GAHOONR HARNESS MOUNTING. No. 361,811. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

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' UNITED- STATES PATENT CFFICE.

EDWIN R. CAHOONE, OE NEWARK, NIHV JERSEY.

HARNESS-MOUNTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,811, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed January 4, 1887. Serial No. 223,347. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN R. Ganoonn'a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New ings, and to letters of reference marked hereon,

which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to enable a partial covering of hard rubber or similar soft or plastic matter capable of being perforated to be more easily and perfectly applied to the exterior of a metal surface and to supply a harness-mounting devoid of certain defects of ornamentation hereinafter particularized.

Heretofore in the manufacture of harnessmountings and other articles applied material has in some cases been anchored to the casting by means of undercuts or perforations formed in or through the casting, into which.

the plastic matter has been forced and held to said casting. By this method it has been impossible to secure at the edges of the mountings a neat finish, the edges of theplastic matter near the ends of the mountings extending across the edge face of the body metal so as to interrupt a. continuous metal surface. In other cases, especially in the manufacture of knife-handles, pins have been secured to the body metal, and the plastic material has been forced around small heads of said pins; but by that construction the said material is not held as securely as by the method and means herein described. By the present means a continuous side face of metal is secured, and the extremities of the pins or wires when bent down over the covering, as described hereinafter, give a positive security, such as cannot be practically gained by other methods. By the use of double layers the pins or fasteners may be positively bent into a holding relation and afterward covered, if the same is desired.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures, Figure 1 illustrates a mounting in side elevation prior to applying the finishing cover. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on an-enlarged scale through line X, showing the casting with a first application of plastic matter, which is held in place by peculiarly-constructed fasteners. Fig. 3 isa View similar to the last, but showing a second finishing application. Fig. 4 illustrates the completed mounting.

The invention consists in the improved article or mounting, in the combination and arrangements of parts thereof, and in the process by which the article is efiected.

In said drawings, a indicates the body portion of a harness-mounting or other article, which may be of any shape or construction, and b b a partial covering for the same,which, contrasting with the metal, gives beauty and finish to the article. Said covering is preferablyin a plurality of layers, the under layer, 1), being first secured to the said body by suitable fasteners-such as pins, rivets, or screwsand preferably by the peculiar fastenings shown in the figures of the drawings, which are of wire soldered to the body metal, and, projecting at right angles from the face thereof, are adapted to be thrust through or into the soft covering material and have their extremities to so project from the said coveringas to allow of their being turned down over the face of the plastic layer, and thus hold the covering in place. Over the first application or layer asecond finishing-layer is placed,sai'd layers being preferably of rubber or other nlateriahadapted to unite when two layersare brought together, and when thus brought into contact to become intimately connected, so that they become as of one integral piece,covering the ends of the fastener, and giving a pecu liarly effective finish. When the layers are of rubber and are united, as described, the said rubber is vulcanized and may be finished in any ordinary manner without any scams or joints being apparent.

It is understood that the layer or layers may be of celluloid or other analogous material.

By providing a plurality of layers adhesively joined, as described, I am enabled to secure peculiar results of ornamentation other than those described, and such as cannot or have not, I believe, been secured by other means.

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For instance, I am able to produce at the lateral edges of the mounting stripes in different colors by making the first layer of one color black, for example--and the outer coatingof asuitable colorin contrast, as red. Thus the inner coating produces a neat and effective ornamental line between the outer layer and the metal.

The fastening-wires are preferably secured at points on the bod y-casting between the lateral edges of the same, and thus do not interrupt the continuous extension of color at said lateral edges, or otherwise mar the effect of The said fastenings are preferably of wire, as beforeintimated, and are bent, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, having upwardly-extending arms 0, which can be turned down, as at c, on the outer face of the body metal. The base portion 0 of the fastener engages the surface of the fastener, and is preferably soldered thereon.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new is- 1. The process of manufacturing harnessmountings and allied articles, which consists, essentially, in securing projecting fasteners on the surface to be covered, applying aplastic layer to said surface, causing the said fasteners to project through said layer, bending the projecting ends of said fasteners upon the surface, and finally applying a second layer to conceal the bent portions of said fasteners, substantially as set forth.

secured to said body, and a second layer of 5 like material adhesively joined to the first said covering, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination, in a harness-mounting, with a body, a, a fastening-wire secured upon the face of said body, thrust through the plastic covering, and bent to hold said covering, and said covering, said parts being arranged and combined substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, in a harness-mounting,

with a body and layers 1) b, of wire fasteners having a base, an arm, and a turned-down extremity, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of December, 1886.

EDWIN R. OA HOONE.

\Vitnesses:

GHARLEs H. PELL, WM. S. OoRwIN. 

